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Nadine Gordimer - Biographical

Born in Springs, South Africa, 20/11/1923.
Daughter of Isidore and Nan Gordimer. Has lived all her life, and
continues to live, in South Africa.

Principal works: 10 novels, including A
Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger's
Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature,
My Son's Story and her most recent, None to Accompany
Me.

10 short story collections, the most recent
Jump, published 1991, and Why Haven't You Written:
Selected Stories 1950-1972, published 1992.

Non-fiction: The Essential Gesture;
On the Mines; The Black Interpreters.

Among honorary degrees: from Yale, Harvard, Columbia, New School
for Social Research, USA; University of Leuven, Belgium,
University of
York (England), Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand (South
Africa), Cambridge University (England).

This autobiography/biography was written
at the time of the award and first
published in the book series Les Prix Nobel.
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